Unlike western names, there is no family name in Myanmar. Women keep their maiden names upon marriage, and children can have names which bear no relation to their parents’ names. Burmese names are either one, two or three syllables. One syllable names (e.g. Ba, Mya, Hla) are no longer in used as they are...
Night life in Yangon, for a foreigner, is quite dry and boring. Even for us who are long time residents of Yangon feel night...